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The Question of Amalgamation. 



. Once more, we regret to say. this question has been raised, 

 and our contemporary The Avicultiiral Magazuie^ has, we con 

 sider, very ill-advisedly brought tlie matter into pubhc 

 discussion, which, we think, cannot tend to increase goo(' 

 feeling between the Avicultural Society and the Foreign Bird 

 Club. 



Again and again over a period of years the A\icultnra' 

 Society have solicited us to amalgamate with them, and we hav-: 

 always declined, neither have we ever made the slightest advance 

 to them for amalgamation, and it appears to us that the con 

 tinuous urging against our desire is not the best of form. Tru- 

 in this instance Mr. W. H. Workman, who is one of our 

 members (also an old member of the A vie. Soc. ) sent us a letter 

 suggesting that we amalgamate with the Avic. Soc. This lette. 

 arrived when May " B.N." was in type, and we wrote Mr 

 Workman to that effect, also stating that we did not consider 

 it a matter for the Journal, but a case for the Council to deal 

 with, and, if called for, take a vote of the members thereupon. 

 However, Mr. Workman also sent his letter to the Avicultural 

 Magazine, and it appeared in their current issue, together with 

 an Editorial note, and gratis copies of this issue have been sent 

 to myself and other officials of F.B.C., therefore considering the 

 matter had better be settled once for all, we reprint both the 

 Editorial note and Mr. Workman's letter. 







Reprinted from the Avicultural Magazine^ June, 1919. 



LiSMORE, Windsor, 

 Belfast. 

 May 4th, 191Q. 



" Dear Sir, — I enclose a copy of a letter I have sent to Bird Xotes 

 " for publication, as I thought you might like to insert it in vour next issue 

 " along with this letter. For a long time I have had the idea of proposing 

 " an amalgamation of these two kindred societies, and I think it would be 

 " a good thing for both if it could be arranged. — I remain, yours very truly, 



W. H. WORKMAN." 

 [Enclosure.] 

 " Dear Sir, — I see in your notice that you ask for correspondence 



